Tag: acupuncture and aging
Electroacupuncture attenuates chronic inflammatory pain and depression comorbidity by inhibiting hippocampal neuronal apoptosis via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway
Click on photo or here for brief youtube explanation This study looks at mice in which chronic inflammatory pain has been induced experimentally. With this inflammation, changes in the hippocampus, the seat of memory. Instituting Electroacupuncture at LI4 and Li3 (a common point combination for pain) not only reversed the changes in the hippocampus but…
Read MoreExercise and Anti-Aging of Cells and Tissues
Exercise is really the mainstay to defer aging of cells and tissues. This detailed article lays it all out. It’s very very science heavy. I will translate it for you at a later date. It stresses the role of AMPK, stimulated by acupuncture also. Inflammation is an important cause of aging, so much so that…
Read MoreLongevity Science Chapter Highlights Flip book
This ebook is a summary of the Longevity Chapter in my writing project. The writing project has taken seemingly forever, but people assure me that is normal for any long form writing. Here are a few highlights from the chapter. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!!! See below
Read MoreAchieving Longevity and Anti Aging with Acupuncture
Reduce Your Stress, Live Long In Chinese medicine enhanced longevity is seen as a goal of therapy and within the purview of practitioners. There are herbal treatments (see facial rejuvenation section), lifestyle suggestions, and acupuncture prescriptions to benefit the “anti-aging” agenda which is part and parcel of acupuncture treatment. Feel better, look better In China,…
Read MoreDeep Resilience. First Drafts of Introduction and Longevity Chapter and Do No Harm
I am posting first drafts of two chapters from my writing project called Deep Resilience. The references haven’t been completed and there is plenty of polishing to do. I may add my own story to the Introduction, but for the sake of brevity left it out on this iteration. Introduction here Introduction-Deep Resilience-8.3.2020 Do No Harm…
Read MoreSignal Transduction Pathways of Acupuncture for Treating Some Nervous System Diseases
This article is a fantastic resource that looks at the nitty gritty of multiple signaling pathways. This is important because these pathways are the focus of research and pharmaceuticals companies to target these pathways for immune functions, inflammation, and anti-aging. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2019; 2019: 2909632. Published online 2019 Jul 11. doi: 10.1155/2019/2909632 PMCID: PMC6657648 PMID: 31379957…
Read MoreEffect of electroacupuncture on SIRT1/NF-κB signaling pathway in adipose tissue of obese rats
This is a key article. Because Chinese Medicine has had longevity as part of its charter forever, this may be a piece of evidence that shows the science behind why this might be true. A brief description of the science behind Sirtuin1 follows in this abstract. There’s a caveat at the end of the wikipedia…
Read MoreDavid Sinclair on the Potential for Reversing Aging: Hormesis Revisited
The Biochemistry of Longevity is Discussed in this video For any readers who are interested in some of the biochemistry behind the latest science on strategies to age more slowly. Many of the strategies we’ve discussed before, as well as the concept of hormesis. Basically, the current thinking is that we are too comfortable. Never…
Read MoreNeuromodulation, Electric Cures and Acupuncture Are All Methods of Alleviating the Toxic Inflammatory Reflex Involved in to Aging
I searched for this “electric cures” issue of Scientific American for a presentation I’m giving. ( I blogged about it when it came out.) I found a link to a letter to the editor. I wonder whether Tracey has considered that acupuncture may somehow mimic the responses he found. I haven’t tried it, but friends…
Read MoreWarm Needle Acupuncture Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Animals
This study looks at moxibustion, warm needle moxibustion in elderly rats to see effect on their gonads. It appears that there is an anti-aging effect in the testes which originates in the pituitary. Since the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis is key in stress response, this, of course interests me. Also because of acupuncture’s claims in leading…
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